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The Apple II personal computer is 35 years old today, a bit of news that I’m sure is either making you feel wildly old or gives you an odd rush of steampunk retro-nostalgia. The computer, launched on April 16 and 17th at the 1977 West Coast Computer Faire, went on...

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Camera Awesome, the photo app from SmugMug that boasts a whopping 297 photo effects and an impressive download rate of more than four million in four weeks, now works with popular photo-sharing app Instagram, allowing users to share their “awesomized” photos to Instagram’s mobile photo network. The company is now...

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Google held a session today at I/O 2013 about how to make money on Android, and in the initial few minutes it shared some updated stats around Google Play revenues and how those are progressing. Not surprisingly, the big growth is coming with in-app purchases, though Google’s recently launched subscription...

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With $Rev, Box is attempting to set a new standard in app monetization that pays developers based on how engaged users are with their products. Box, the enterprise cloud service, is launching a new program called $Rev, which the company is billing as "the easiest way for enterprise app...

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Continuing their close relationship with the iTunes Store following a landmark deal to launch their music in the store in late 2010, The Beatles today announced the release of their first official ringtones, available exclusively through the iTunes Store.Beginning today, fans around the world can, for the first time, purchase...

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Before Mailbox was even an officially announced project, and long before it sold to Dropbox in what is said to have been around a $100 million deal, Josh Milas and Alex Obenauer took to Kickstarter to fund their very own reinvention of email. The team created Mail Pilot, which...

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In a bid to compete with Apple and Google, Amazon.com has begun testing a new service that would allow in-app purchases on the Kindle Fire. According to Bloomberg News, the in-app purchasing system would include both monthly subscriptions, say for a magazine, or a one-time purchase, say to access additional...

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Mojang, the creative force behind Minecraft, is releasing its next title to the public a week from today on June 3rd. The new game, called Scrolls, is a digital collectible card game, similar in concept to Magic: The Gathering, and therefore a very different beast from the free-form world-building and exploration...

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Popular cross-platform messaging app WhatsApp is planning to eschew its current one-time purchase fee for iOS users, and move to a subscription model akin to how the title is distributed on other platforms like Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone....

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Amazon is testing a system that will allow tablet users to make in-app purchases, reports Bloomberg. The system would allow for a subscription-based purchase as well as a one-time purchase of some sort of virtual good. Google and Apple have held strong positions in this arena for a while,...

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This week, YoYo Games is officially launching GameMaker: Studio, a new development tool designed to let developers create casual and social games for a wide array of platforms. GameMaker: Studio is the next version of 2D drag-and-drop game development tool GameMaker. Originally created in 1999 by professor Mark Overmars, YoYo Games acquired...

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Facebook developers can now display Facebook-sponsored promotions in their games to encourage players to make a first-time purchase, according to a post on Facebook’s developer blog. “New payer promotions,” which the social network created in February, give users who haven’t bought Facebook Credits before an extra $4 of in-app currency...

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Zynga’s purchase of OMGPOP for a price reported to be around $150-200 million has Wall Street analysts scratching their heads. Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia writes, “ZNGA’s acquisition of OMGPOP, creator of Draw Something (currently the top free/paid App for iPhone/iPad), is interesting. However, we believe it is too early...

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Consumers spent six times as much time in retailer apps in December compared to a year earlier, showing that shopping and commerce is finally beginning to take off on mobile platforms. Flurry, the mobile analytics startup, looked at about 1,800 iOS and Android apps from December 2011 to December...

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TuneUp, the iTunes plug-in that improves your music library by fixing mislabeled songs, adding missing cover art, and the like, is introducing a fun new feature today — the ability to view the lyrics of whatever song you’re playing. It’s not like you couldn’t find the lyrics on your own,...

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After making a preview available to Windows users earlier in the summer, Redmond-based Microsoft has announced the official Office 2013 (or Office 365 as Microsoft likes to put it) pricing. Microsoft is taking an interesting approach with its latest Office version, pushing heavy for a subscription price rather than...

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Do You Have a Drobo Storage Device? is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS FeedWhat device do you use for NAS (if anything)? I’ve only heard of the Drobo before, but I’ve never been sent one to review,...